If there was one thing you could...

[42x16ss]

Promote: Europecar

Demote: Euskaltel or AG2R

Rider to Buy: Bernie Eisel, Bert Grabsch, Adam Hansen or Lars Bak. Incredible, tireless domestiques who can get their own results given the chance.

Promote: Stage Race- Langkawi, One Day- Strade Bianche

Demote: Beijing

Historic Rider: Hinault

Donate Win: Txurruka. Can't one of his crazy attacks work? Just one!

U25: Thomas de Gendt, Thibeaut Pinot or Luke Durbridge (yes I'm serious!)

MTF: Crostis

 

[Captain Sensible]

Team Promote - Europcar

Team Demote - AG2R

Buy Rider - Peter Sagon

Race Promote - Strade Bianchi

Race Demote - Bejing

Historic Rider Back - Hinault /Greg LeMond

Donate Win - Robert Millar Vuelta 1985

U25 Rider to win TDF - Andy Schleck

MTF - pass

 

[Sophistic]

Team promote: Europcar
-> Team demote: Saxobank
-> Buy rider: Jens Voigt
-> Race promote: Tour of California
-> Race demote: Tour of Poland(+ Eneco Tour, Volta Catalyuna, Tour of Beijing, one of the two canadian races)
-> Historic rider back: Merckx
-> Donate win: Simoni the Giro that he lost to Salvodelli because the falcon bought some helpers along the way
-> U25 Rider to win Le Tour: Talansky
-> Climb in GT: Kitzbuehler Horn

 

[theyoungest]

-> Team promote: Europcar (if they don't lose too many riders to clinic issues)
-> Team demote: Euskaltel (it's just not a WT team, the races they want to ride they'll get invited for anyway)
-> Buy rider: Any rider? Alberto Contador, of course. The most talented rider around, by far.
-> Race promote: I like the Volta a Portugal suggestion, actually. Maybe the Tour of Belgium, which is actually more fun than the Eneco Tour.
-> Race demote: Chinese races. I understand that money needs to be made, but come on, a deadly boring race through the smog with no one lining the roads, who really needs that?
-> Historic rider back: Zoetemelk
-> Donate win: I hate gifted wins
-> U25 Rider to win Le Tour: Joe Dombrowski. Just needs to work on his TT a little...
-> Climb in GT: The Zoncolan. In the Tour de France.

 

[Bye Bye Bicycle]

-> Team promote: Tabriz Petrochemical Team on PCT level would be great.
-> Team demote: Euskaltel (was never worthy of WT status, will never be)
-> Buy rider: Reinardt Janse van Rensburg - hell yeah, he'll win 20 races each season, on every terrain!
-> Race promote: I want the Course de la Paix back from the dead
-> Race demote: Gent-Wevelgem back to Wednesday, E3 back to Saturday.
-> Historic rider back: Francesco Casagrande - I hated him in every race he was in with passion.
-> Donate win: A rainbow jersey to Zabel, he truly deserved it.
-> U25 Rider to win Le Tour: Fabio Aru - He'll win the Giro one day.
-> Climb in GT: something in the Eastern Pyrenees, especially Pic du Canigou

 

[Christian]

Team Promote - Europcar

Team Demote - Euskaltel

Buy Rider - Maxime Monfort

Race Promote - Tour du Haut Var

Race Demote - Paris-Tours

Historic Rider Back - Richard Virenque

Donate Win - Marco Marcato

U25 Rider to win TDF - Bob Jungels

MTF - MONT VENTOUX

 

[Morbius]

mostly similar answers to others except:
Donate win: Robert Millar Giro 1987
Historic rider back: Someone from before the TV era to see how they cycled, so I will say Coppi

 

[Maaaaaaaarten]

Team promote: Europcar or Androni
Team demote: AG2R
Buy rider: Cancellara, so that such an awesome rider doesn't have to ride for such a crappy team like Radioschleck anymore
Race promote: Tour de San Luis
Race demote: Tour of Beijing
Historic rider back: Even though he's technically still riding, it won't be long before he retires; Vinokourov
Donate win: 2012 TDF to Denis Menchov
U25 Rider to win Le Tour: Thibault Pinot or Nairo Quintana
Climb in GT: mt. Kea (maybe if we ever get Zomegnan back, we could have a Giro start in Hawaii)

 

[Echoes]

If there was one team you could promote to the World Tour (from (Pro)Continental), which one would it be?
None. WT should collapse. Bring back the UCI ranking.

If there was one team you could demote to (Pro)Continental, which one would it be?
Same as above

If you could "buy" one (current) rider, who build be it be?
Kevin Pauwels

If there was one race (.HC, .1 or .2) you could promote to World Tour, which one would it be (tour or single-day race)?
None again. But once we've brought the UCI ranking back, Paris-Brussels should be promoted to a higher status, and have its 285km distance back, just like the ex non World Cup single day race should exceed 200km like they've always been.


If there was one race (WT) you could demote to HC or .1, which one would it be?
Tour of the Low Countries should disappear from the pro calendar and be replaced by the Tour of the Netherlands, like before. Olympic races, should disappear from the pro calendar too, if not completely disappear (road races, I mean). Same for the Tour of Qatar, Oman, Langkawi, Beijing, Bongo, etc.

If there was one 'historic' rider you could put into race again (at his best level), who would you choose?
Have to choose Merckx, but it won't be of any use, in the EPO era.


If you could "donate" a win to a rider, which win would it be (and to which rider?)
None to anyone. They have to fend for themselves. 200,000$ is a lot of money. They're gonna have to earn it.

If you had to bet 10000$ on a -25 aged rider to win the Tour someday in his career, who would it be?
I never bet. And I hate Bore de France. And surely don't want to bet on this sh*t race.


If you could choose one climb to be used as MTF in a GT, which one would it be?
Anyone but not a pass which can be climbed down on the other side.

 

[Fetisoff]

If there was one team you could promote to the World Tour (from (Pro)Continental), which one would it be?
Androids

If there was one team you could demote to (Pro)Continental, which one would it be?
Saxo


If you could "buy" one (current) rider, who build be it be?
Purito

If there was one race (.HC, .1 or .2) you could promote to World Tour, which one would it be (tour or single-day race)?
Tour of Turkey, GP Indurain

If there was one race (WT) you could demote to HC or .1, which one would it be?

Too many, let's go with Romandie


If there was one 'historic' rider you could put into race again (at his best level), who would you choose?
Pantani, of course


If you could "donate" a win to a rider, which win would it be (and to which rider?)
I guess Andy and Scarponi already had a race donated to each, so I will not answer this question

If you had to bet 10000$ on a -25 aged rider to win the Tour someday in his career, who would it be?
Henao

If you could choose one climb to be used as MTF in a GT, which one would it be?
Crostis